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Rope a Dope?

Carol Platt Liebau | May 16, 2008 3:58 PM

The White House reports that the President's reproach of those who appease terrorists was aimed -- if at anyone -- at Jimmy Carter.

If the Bush people had intended to play rope-a-dope, they couldn't have done it better.

After all, what does it say about Barack Obama -- and the entire Democrat Party establishment -- that they would mistake a rebuke of Carter's terrorist coddling with a critique of Obama's views on foreign policy?